I like blog posts like this in theory (I too, learned Redux by making a mental mapping of MVC <-> Redux) but when it's all said and done, it truly breaks down quite rapidly. Honestly this could have been 'Elixir GenServer Explained to Javascript Developers' based on how unspecific to Redux most of the post is, and it would possibly more helpful.
The main goal of this blog post is to promote Elixir language to web developers through the prism of a well known library. It talks about de Elixir actor model which is very close to the flux pattern used by Redux. It's not make sense to compare the actor model to JS which is a language and not a pattern.
